RAWALPINDI
\nPTI founder Imran Khan wrote a second \u201copen letter\u201d to Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir on Saturday, complaining about alleged mistreatment in prison among other things.
\nPreviously on February 3, Imran wrote to the army chief over what he claimed was a growing distance between the military and the public. As per his letter, the army needed to reevaluate its policy to win over the public with reasons and suggestions proposed by Imran to remedy the situation.
\nHowever, security sources said the letter had not been received by the military and dismissed reports in the media about the existence of such a letter. They claimed that the military establishment was not interested in receiving such a letter.
\nIn the letter posted on Imran\u2019s X account today, he said: \u201cThe prison administration \u2026 has done every injustice to me to increase pressure on me while violating basic human rights. I have been kept in a death cell. I was kept in complete lock-up for 20 days where even sunlight did not reach me.
\n\u201cFor five days, the electricity in my cell was turned off and I was in complete darkness. My exercise equipment and TV were taken away and I was not even allowed to have newspapers. They even withhold books whenever they want. Apart from these 20 days, I was again kept in lock-up for 40 hours. My sons have been made to talk to me only three times in the last six months.\u201d
\nHe said he had written the previous with \u201cgood intentions for the betterment of the country and the nation, so that the growing gap between the army and the people could be reduced day by day, but the response was given with extreme frivolity and irresponsibility\u201d.
\nImran claimed that 90 per cent of the people would support his previous letter\u2019s points if public opinion was taken on them.
\nThe PTI founder talked at length about his criticism of recent legal and political developments in the country and the issues being faced by his party and workers.
\n\u201cAll this is against our traditions and due to this, hatred against the army has increased a lot among the people, which if corrected in time, is better for both the army and the country, otherwise irreparable losses may have to be borne from all this,\u201d he reiterated in line with his first letter.
\nConcluding his letter, Imran said: \u201cIt is essential for the stability and security of the country that the gap between the army and the people be reduced, and there is only one way to reduce this growing gap, and that is for the army to return to its constitutional boundaries, separate itself from politics and fulfil its assigned responsibilities, and this task will have to be done by the army itself, otherwise this growing gap will become fault lines in the term of national security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RAWALPINDI PTI founder Imran Khan wrote a second \u201copen letter\u201d to Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir on Saturday, complaining about alleged mistreatment in prison among other things. Previously on February 3, Imran wrote to the army chief over what he claimed was a growing distance between the military and the public. As per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-460372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n